Frontiers Podcast
Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the scientists and researchers responsible for them, as well as hearing from their critics
Episodes to download
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Virtual Therapy
Christmas Eve 2014
Quentin Cooper looks at the therapeutic possibilites of virtual reality.
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Can Maths Combat Terrorism?
Wed 17 Dec 2014
Can maths reveal hidden patterns in global terrorism? Dr Hannah Fry investigates.
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Animal Personality
Wed 10 Dec 2014
Prof Adam Hart explores a new field in zoology - animal personality.
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New Space to Fly
Wed 3 Dec 2014
Jack Stewart meets the pioneers redesigning our international airspace.
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Vagus Nerve
Wed 26 Nov 2014
Can stimulating the vagus nerve improve health? Gaia Vince explores this new research area
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The Rosetta Mission
Wed 12 Nov 2014
Billed as 'the sexiest space mission ever', did Rosetta's probe land safely on its comet?
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Cosmology
Wed 9 Jul 2014
Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang as announced in March?
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Swarming robots
Wed 2 Jul 2014
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots.
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Anaesthesia
Wed 25 Jun 2014
Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.
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Driverless cars
Wed 4 Jun 2014
Jack Stewart meets the engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves.
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Chronotypes
Wed 18 Dec 2013
Linda Geddes explores research into the differences between morning and evening people.
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Geo-engineering
Wed 11 Dec 2013
Gaia Vince asks if geoengineering by blocking the sun could stop the earth warming up.
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Nitrogen Fixing
Wed 4 Dec 2013
Prof Andrea Sella looks at efforts to reduce our dependence on the Haber-Bosch process.
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Self-Healing Materials
Wed 27 Nov 2013
Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves.
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The Power of the Unconscious
Wed 20 Nov 2013
The crucial role of our unconscious, and how scientists are now harnessing its powers.
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Gut Microbiota
Wed 13 Nov 2013
New insights into the important relationship we have with microbes that live in our gut.
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Oxytocin
Wed 17 Jul 2013
Linda Geddes asks if taking the hormone oxytocin can make people more sociable.
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Crossrail - Tunnelling under London
Wed 10 Jul 2013
How 26 miles of precision-engineered tunnels are created through London's erratic geology.
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Plate Tectonics and Life
Wed 3 Jul 2013
Roland Pease on the idea that life on early Earth led to the evolution of plate tectonics.
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Whatever happened to biofuels?
Wed 26 Jun 2013
Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
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Build Me a Brain
Wed 12 Jun 2013
Roland Pease reports on scientists building brains from scratch in the lab.
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Forensic Phonetics
Wed 12 Dec 2012
Rebecca Morelle explores how the forensic science of speech is helping to solve crime.
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05/12/2012
Wed 5 Dec 2012
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
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Brain Machine Interfaces
Wed 28 Nov 2012
Geoff Watts looks into how scientists can use the mind to control artificial limbs.
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Anthropocene
Wed 21 Nov 2012
Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.
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Why do women live longer than men?
Wed 14 Nov 2012
Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing.
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Future of Particle Physics
Wed 7 Nov 2012
Tracey Logan asks what particle physicists are doing after finding the Higgs boson.
